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Started by Squid, July 31, 2006, 11:49:42 PM

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Whitney

#30
Big Mac....you really need to find a girlfriend (or have a one night stand)...something. :)

imrational

#31
I think it is a good idea, but it might be hard to direct such a thing.  How do you assign who researches what?

Still, some topics I think would be interesting (although not too charitable) would be to compile information on Nobel Prize winners.  I always thought it would make for an interesting television show to do a biography on a Nobel Prize Winner and also explain what their award-winning research was and how it impacts us today.

Another topic would be an explanation of the evolution of religions around the world... sort of like a memetic map.  Instead of biology's Family Tree of Life, we would make a tree of religions.  Example:  show how the egyptian's pantheon was later incorporated into the Greek & Roman pantheons (I'm pretty sure that some people HAVE to be working on this, but I have no idea who or where).

Court

#32
Ooh, I like imrational's second idea. A lot. :)
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Whitney

#33
Quote from: "Court"Ooh, I like imrational's second idea. A lot. :)

I do too.  I think we'd have to get a lot of people involved who have access to a university library in order to research it though.  I've tried to find things similar to that online before, but couldn't.  So, we'd either have to find scholarly works (certainly some exist) or start completely from scratch.

I've worked on group research projects before...they are hard to organize.  What we have normally done is get everyone to try and develop a preliminary outline.  Complie each outline into one big outline...take out anything that doesn't see relevant...then distribute sub-topics to individuals for them to research.  That gets a lot of info together...then the research has to be compiled and reorganized....then each person looks through the research and writes on their topic.  Then someone would have to act as an editor and go through what everyone wrote to take out redundancy.

It would be a big project.  I like the idea but don't think I'll have much time to help out much (school is about to start).

Squid

#34
I have access to a lot of journals through my university, however not everyone has to be left out in the cold.  Many journals have content available after some length of time.  PNAS makes their content available after six months I believe.  Abstracts are usually available without any kind of special access.

Local libraries usually have some periodicals section with some journals.

Google Scholar and Pubmed can help in searches too.

Online there are a lot of open-access journals if you know where to look:

I have an ongoing thread at my forums for anyone people find - http://atheistcoalition.com/forums/posting.php?mode=editpost&p=2307

Here's what I have so far:

http://www.plos.org/

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

http://www.doaj.org/

http://www.aapsj.org/

http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/

http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/

http://www.epress.com/w3jbio/

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/

http://palaeo-electronica.org/

http://www.molvis.org/molvis/

http://www.jasnh.com/

http://www.jetpress.org/

http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/dynacon.html

http://www.cmbl.org.pl/

http://www.gjpsy.uni-goettingen.de/

http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

http://www.uv.es/psicologica/

http://human-nature.com/ep/

http://www.psyplexus.com/plexus/open_access.html

http://mundanebehavior.org/index2.htm

http://www.ihr.org/main/journal.shtml

http://puffin.creighton.edu/psy/journal/JPIhome.html

http://lifesciences.asu.edu/evolution/

http://www.neuroanatomy.org/

http://www.swgc.mun.ca/animus/

http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro/JSRI/html%20version/homepage.htm

http://www.bsw.org/project/biblica/

http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/

http://www.jbmb.or.kr/

http://nnlm.gov/libinfo/ejournals/

http://www.biomed.cas.cz/physiolres/

http://www.cell-research.com/index.asp

http://www.neuroquantology.com/

http://www.aans.org/education/journal/neurosurgical/

http://www.ul.ie/~philos/

http://www.othervoices.org/index2.html

http://www.ncnpjournal.com/

http://www.cas.ucf.edu/philosophy/fpr/highend/index.php

http://www.jci.org/

http://theoryandscience.icaap.org/

http://www.psyplexus.com/plexus/open_access.html

http://www.warnercnr.colostate.edu/~jerrym/GeoJournalsOnline.htm

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

Big Mac

#35
Quote from: "laetusatheos"Big Mac....you really need to find a girlfriend (or have a one night stand)...something. :D
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